I released a new version of Photonic on 5th April 2023. Technically I released 3 new versions, but that happened only because soon after releasing the first version I realized that the WordPress core code does not quite read PHP version information the way I was expecting it to. These are the main features of […]

I released version 2.84 of Photonic after a long hiatus. There were a couple of reasons for the hiatus. Firstly, I have been really, really busy with the job that puts food on my table. Secondly, Photonic has been remarkably stable for a long time. However, this change was necessitated due to one major change […]

I released version 2.80 of Photonic last evening with the following changes. New Features I added support for PhotoSwipe v5. Photonic has had support for PhotoSwipe since October 2018, but that was for v4, which is still the predominant version out there. The new v5 version is a rewrite from the ground-up. However, like the […]

Over the past couple of weeks you might have seen a few new releases of Photonic come through. Most of these changes (versions 2.76, 2.77, 2.78 and 2.79) were done with the WordPress Plugins team and focused on aspects of security hardening, updating scripts and changing a few things with the overall approach for the […]

I released version 2.75 of Photonic on Monday (20th September), after a hiatus of 3+ months. While the gap was quite long, it was mainly because the plugin has been very stable, and I have been actively providing support on the support forum. As it happens, I did not publish a change log for the […]

In the wake of the polar vortex ravaging Texas, I forgot to publish the release notes for version 2.70 of Photonic, which was released on Monday, 22nd February. This is a small release with two minor fixes: If users were trying to display a Flickr group in conjunction with an additional parameter like a tag, […]

I released version 2.68 of Photonic a couple of days back and 2.69 today. These address a small fix pertaining to the issue that if Google Photos albums were selected from beyond the list displayed in the first page of the wizard, they wouldn’t stay selected while editing the shortcode. There are no other changes.

I released version 2.67 of Photonic a little while back. This is a minor release with the following updates: Bug Fixes There was a “Flash of unstyled content” (a.k.a. FOUC) happening for slideshows, particularly when they had many photos. The “Thumbnail strip below” option was not always showing up for all slideshows. Changes I have […]

I released version 2.66 of Photonic on Thursday, 28th January. This is a minor release that addresses a “fatal error” when thumbnails were enabled in the slideshow mode of Photonic. There are no other changes in this version.